HSPH Adjunct Professor Named Principal Speaker at Harvard University's Commencement
Nobel
laureate Amartya Sen, adjunct professor
at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and Harvard's
Lamont University professor emeritus, will deliver the principal Commencement
address on June 8 in Cambridge. Sen joins a list of past luminaries such
as Vice President Al Gore and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as
HU Commencement speakers.
Sen's research includes economics and philosophy. In 1998, he won the
Nobel Prize in economics for his work on poverty and famine. Sen is also
master of Trinity College, Cambridge University in the UK.
